I have always asked myself the question, "How Did It Happen that the one church at Rome became so different from all the other churches in the world when every church sprang from the one church that Jesus started on the day of Pentecost ?"

It was a coincidence that my eye fell many times on the word 'Heretic,' and when I looked at the definition of the word I came to realize that I was a 'Heretic' according to the first Roman Church standards. Hence the beginning of my research became a game of chasing the name 'Heretic' wherever I found it.

I reasoned that there must have been a time in church history when the great separation of the two existing bodies began.

Hence my task

WHAT MY RESEARCH REVEALED

As I searched in many different Encyclopedias, the reports were varied. I could see that it depended on the man of woman who had contributed the article. I could see that the coloring of the data was by the personal opinions of the writer. Hence, before I read an article I looked up the background of the contributor.

The historian Merrivale has expressed my views exactly so I ask permission of the publishers of his General History of Rome to forgive me for the following I quote:

"It is to be regretted, indeed, that many able writers of this period of church history were too subject to the ecclesiastical influences of the Roman church, and allowed themselves in many ways to overstep the true line of moderation both as to the Christian system they commended and the Christian systems they depreciated.

It has been my aim to trace institutions to their real foundation, and to distinguish between the accounts we can accept as true and those that are bound to be rejected as fictitious of imaginary; I have collected, compared and sifted the authorities, full as they are of inconsistencies and contradictions; I have analyzed and criticized them at every step, and while obliged to advance my own conjectures, I shall try to explain the ground on which I base my opinions and show the means by which they may be defended."

I have used the process of deduction in compiling this work.

This book; will be put on the banned list that is issued from the Vatican, because it will open past ecclesiastical histories that were suppressed by the Roman church; I mean the histories of the Roman church in the first, second, third and fourth centuries.

It is my belief that the true church followed the Scriptural pattern, and the Roman church substituted dogmas and made traditional dogma the guide from the first century.

DEDUCTION

I really believe if St. Peter were to enter Rome today and preach a sermon like the one he preached at Jerusalem he would be cast out of the city.